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Property from a Distinguished Philadelphia Collection

Paul Howard Manship

Head of a Girl

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October 9, 04:42 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 USD

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15,000 USD

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Property from a Distinguished Philadelphia Collection

Paul Howard Manship

1885 - 1966


Head of a Girl

inscribed Paul Manship ©, Roman Bronze Works, N-Y- and with the foundry mark Roman Bronze Works, N-Y- (on the underside)

bronze with marble base

height: 13 ¼ in. 33.7 cm.

Conceived in 1916.

Randall Lewison (acquired directly from the artist in the 1920s)

Thelma Kraus (acquired in 1940)

Conner Rosenkranz, New York

Acquired from the above in September 2001 by the present owner

A. E. Gallatin, Paul Manship: A Critical Essay on His Sculpture and an Iconography, New York, 1917, p. 15; n.p., illustration of another cast (in installation photograph of Bar Harbor, Maine, Jesup Memorial Library, 1917)

“The New Manner of Paul Manship: Figures in Bronze Which, Within the Last Year Have Been Exhibited in London, Paris and New York,” Vanity Fair, vol. 18, no. 5, January 1922, p. 49, illustration of another cast (titled Head of a Dancer)

Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur américain, Paris, 1927, pl. 18, illustration of another cast

Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, no. 83, p. 158

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, From the Studio: Selections of American Sculpture 1811-1941, 1986, no. 37, p. 59, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Modern Times: Aspects of American Art, 1907-1956, 1986, no. 63, p. 70, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirshl & Adler Galleries, Uncommon Spirit: Sculpture in America, 1800-1940, 1989, no. 54, p. 80, illustration of another cast

Elizabeth L. O'Leary, Sylvia Yount and Susan Jensen Rawles, et al., American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, Virginia and London, 2010, pp. 347 and 349, fig. 196, illustration in color of another cast